RUSS 0090 Midterm: Exam 1 Study Guide - Russian Fairytales
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Baba yaga and koshchei the deathless: baba yaga. Act in the right way, behave correctly: koshchei the deathless. Can"t die (unnatural), nature helping, life force. Ivan the fool: peasant, no change/ growth, those looked down upon (poor & unintelligent) end up happy, doing what he is told, but messing up. Burning an effigy to symbolize previous winter. Purity (wearing white, playing with fire, flower weave headband: gods, domestic and nature spirits. Veles: main god, thunder god, god, god of the wind, god of death. Dazhbog: sun god, fertility god (seeds, god of tools. Mokosh": only female deity, vegetation & human fertility. Don"t do chores, properly makes a lot of noise & screams: oracle, will joke with people, alien domovoi = bad spirit. Dvorovoi: spirit of the yard, more evil than the domestic spirit, more a threat to livestock; bringing animals inside house so he doesn"t hurt them, give offerings.
